Sunday, May 27, 2007

Opening June 1st the Auckland Museum will show the Seresin collection of iconic 20th century photographs. The showincludes vintage prints by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Andre Kertesz, Eugene Atget, Josef Sudek, Bill Brandt, Mario Giacomelli and G.H. Brassai among others. Included is one of my all time favourite images the Kertesz Satiric Dancer, made in 1926. At 11am on Monday June 4 I will be at the Museum to talk about the show and what the collection means to me.

About Me

My pictures explore the strange anthropology of cities. The unusual and overlooked in the human landscape.
I am asking the viewer to question the idea that photographs as documents are complete representations of subject.
I'm interested in the universality of life and the idea of parallel lives - when one thing is happening here, something else is happening over there. The democracy of non-places fascinates me, in the knowledge that inevitably nothing is as it seems.
I work and live between Auckland and Paris.
http://harveybenge.com/
email:harvey.benge@xtra.co.nz